Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Query First

I had a really hard time writing the query for my first book. In fact, I'm still tweaking it, so I decided to try something different. While I'm writing the book or even before I write the book, I write the query.

Crazy you say.

I actually find this really helps. It allows me to identify any problems, whether that be conflict, plot, character, or voice. Plus by the time I've finished the book, I won't have to spend a lot of time writing the query.

What do you think? Do you ever write the query first?

PS: In the What's Happening on the sidebar, Laural Garver's book is being released tomorrow. Stop by her blog and congratulate her.

I've heard that's really helpful, but I've never tried it. Great idea! Not only does it make you distill your book down to a few central ideas (so the book itself isn't all over the place), but then you have the query over with - or at least the first draft of it.